[solved including for German] show me the parameters ceased to work
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Nicole · 2026-05-12 15:42

If I typed
Code: Text  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i
self.myMethod(usually there was a hover text allowing me to key in the
parameters. This hover text said eg "myNumer: integer; myWord:
string;"

This handy function does not show up any more and I cannot find any
option to fix it.
I have Laz 4.4.

Thank you in advance for hints.


In the meanwhile I found this posting:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,73627.0.html

It did not help.
I checked all the boxes, restarted the IDE, no show.

Only "Ctr + Shift + Space" shows them, but this is not the comfort I
was used to all the years I used this.

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n7800 · 2026-05-13 21:14

Note that this is due to the open parenthesis. If you close it or
don't open it, a tooltip will appear (see attachment).

I'm not sure the tooltip would actually be that helpful in this case
if the parenthesis isn't closed... While you're typing the method
name, the parameters are shown in the auto-completion list. When you
open a parenthesis, a tooltip similar to [Ctrl+Shift+Space]
immediately appears. This works while typing, without having to use
the mouse or hover over it.

Quote from: Nicole on May 12, 2026, 05:42:40 pmThis handy function
does not show up any more and I cannot find any option to fix it.
I have Laz 4.4.

What version were you using before? I checked 4.4, 3.0, and 2.2.6, and
the behavior is the same everywhere.

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Nicole · 2026-05-14 18:12

your image 300! The second one.

This is exactly what I saw in the past and what I loved.
Does not show up any more.
I used it thousands of times and did not change anything.

I use Laz 4.4.

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Hansvb · 2026-05-14 19:24

Maybe a stupid question but does the code compile? If I have an error
in the code somewhere, for example i forget  ;  then these kinds of
hints/code completion don't always work anymore. But as soon as the
code is good again, it works fine again.

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n7800 · 2026-05-14 21:23

Quote from: Nicole on May 14, 2026, 08:12:06 pmyour image 300! The
second one.

This is exactly what I saw in the past and what I loved.
Does not show up any more.

IDE Options > Editor > Completion and Hints > Auto Display Function
Prototypes

By the way, to avoid spending a long time searching for an option, you
can simply enter its name in the search (when the IDE Options window
opens, the cursor is already in the search field).

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Nicole · 2026-05-16 07:45

Thank you so much!
This works.

Attached is a screenshot for the German version